London Metropolitan University

Faculty Member, Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI)

Professor & Chair ALT Research Committee

About

Interested in blended learning, technology enhanced learning, informal learning, mobile learning, augmented contexts for development, user-generated contexts and work-based learning.

Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/john-cook6/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnnigelcook
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook

Recent UK Gov Report
ALT/ESRC TLRP-TEL Research Programme have put up their response to some evidence-seeking questions from the Department of Business Innovation and Skills about technology in learning. The document has a foreword by John Cook (LTRI & ALT Research Committee Chair) and Richard Noss (TLRP-TEL). John also wrote some of the content of the report. It is available in two formats.
1. As a PDF from the ALT Open Access Repository at http://repository.alt.ac.uk/839/
2. Implemented in Comment press by TEL's Katy Jordan at http://www.tlrp.org/tel/technologyinlearning/ In the latter format users can comment on the document at a very granular level.

Co-chair for ALT-C 2011
LTRI's John Cook and Sugata Mitra (from Newcastle University) have been announced as Co-Chairs for the UK's premier e-learning conference ALT-C in 2011. The theme is 'Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate'.
Conference website: http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2011/


Selected publications/invited talks
  1. Cook, J. and Pachler, N. (2012). Online People Tagging: Social (Mobile) Network(ing) Services and Work-based Learning. British Journal of Education Technology. Related talk: http://tinyurl.com/6lhlrwu

  2. Cook, J., Pachler, N. and Bachmair, B. (2011). Ubiquitous Mobility with Mobile Phones: A Cultural Ecology for Mobile Learning. E-Learning and Digital Media.  Special Issue on Media: Digital, Ecological and Epistemological. PDF pre-print: http://www.mendeley.com/download/public/7293303/4169531203/47dad77911a51666a83af941c87d4635e4ea9f11/dl.pdf

  3. Smith, C., Bradley, C., Cook, J. and Pratt-Adams, S. (2011). Designing for Deep and Active Learning: Putting Learning into Context with Mobile Devices. In Anders D. Olofsson and J. Ola Lindberg (Eds), Informed Design of Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Enhanced Learning and Teaching. IGI Global.

  4. Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for Development. Invited talk University Stockholm, 3rd September, 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook/cook-acd-sudsv2010

  5. Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for Development. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2(3), 1-12. Pre-print PDF http://www.mendeley.com/download/public/7293303/4169531183/b8c970e107d2ce8a23ed9c58cbe0a746f087b006/dl.pdf

  6. Pachler, N., Cook, J. and Bachmair, B. (2010). Appropriation of Mobile Phones and Learning. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning. 2(1), 1-21. Pre-print PDF http://www.mendeley.com/download/public/7293303/4169531123/81c7d05139b27f6b418d5da69b1310604a408a5b/dl.pdf

  7. Cook., J. (2010). Contribution to ALT's 'What research has to say for practice' Wiki resource: http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index/What_research_has_to_say_for_practice

  8. Pachler, N., Bachmair, B. and Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices. New York: Springer. Publisher's page: http://bit.ly/7i5asL

  9. Cook, J. (2010). Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for Development. Extended Abstract in E. Brown (Ed.) Education in the Wild: Contextual and Location-Based Mobile Learning in Action. PDF: http://bit.ly/dfB1ak

  10. Holley, D., Bradley, C. Greaves, L. and Cook, J. (2009). “You Can Take Out of it What you Want” – How Learning Objects Within Blended Learning Designs Encourage Personalised Learning. In John O’Donoghue (Ed.) Technology Supported Environment for Personalised Learning: Methods and Case Studies. IGI Global.

  11. Cook, J. (2009). Invited talk: E-Learning in its Element: Building Informal Learning and Research. ESRC National Centre for Research Methods E-Learning Event, Work-Based Learning for Education centre, Institute of Education, November 2009. http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook/cook-esrc-national-centre-for-research-methods

  12. Cook, J. (2009). Scaffolding the Mobile Wave. Keynote at Institutional Impact, a JISC online conference, 9th July 2009. See http://ssbr0709.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/programme/

  13. Cook, J. (2009). Phases of Mobile Learning. Invited lecture at Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2009. Terchova, Slovakia, May 30 - June 6. See: http://tinyurl.com/psejxu

  14. Bachmair, B., Pachler, N. and Cook, J. (2009). Mobile Phones as Cultural Resources of Learning, an Education Analysis of Structures, Mobile Expertise and Cultural Practices. MedienPädagogik online journal. See http://www.medienpaed.com/2009/bachmair0903.pdf

  15. Cook, J. (2009). The Digitally Literate Learner and the Appropriation of New Technologies and Media for Education. Inaugural Professorial Lecture, Holloway Road, London Metropolitan University. Slides available: http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook

  16. Bradley, C., Haynes, R., Cook, J., Boyle, T. and Smith, C. (2009). Design and Development of Multimedia Learning Objects for Mobile Phones. In Mohamed Ally (Ed.) Mobile Learning in Education and Training. Athabasca University Press. PDF of book: http://www.aupress.ca/books/120155/ebook/99Z_Mohamed_Ally_2009-MobileLearning.pdf 

  17. Cook, J., Pachler, N. and Bradley, C. (2008). Bridging the Gap? Mobile Phones at the Interface between Informal and Formal Learning. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, Spring. Available from: http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/view/34


  18. Cook, J., Patchler, N. and Bradley, C. (2007). Whither Case-Cased Approaches to Understanding Off-Site and On-Campus Mobile Learning? Paper presented at Workshop on Research Methods in Informal and Mobile Learning: How to get the data we really want, 14 December, WLE Centre, Institute of Education London, UK. Download book from: http://www.wlecentre.ac.uk/cms/files/events/book.pdf

  19. Cook, J., Bradley, C., Lance, J., Smith, C. and Haynes, R. (2007). Generating Learning Contexts with Mobile Devices. In Norbert Pachler (Ed.), Mobile Learning: Towards a Research Agenda, WLE Occasional Papers in Work-Based Learning 1, London. Download book from: http://www.wlecentre.ac.uk/cms/files/occasionalpapers/mobilelearning_pachler2007.pdf

  20. Cook, J., Holley, D. and Andrew, D. (2007). A Stakeholder Approach to Implementing E-Learning in a University. British Journal of Education Technology, 38(5), 784–794.

  21. Cook, J. (2007). Invited talk - Generating New Learning Contexts: Novel Forms of Reuse and Learning on the Move. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 2766-2779). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Full paper from proceedings: http://staffweb.londonmet.ac.uk/~cookj1/top_files/EdMedia2007%20Cook_invited_paper_final.doc

  22. Cook, J. (2007). Smells Like Teen Spirit: Generation CX. Ideas in Cyberspace Education (ICE3), 21-23 March, Loch Lomond, Scotland.  Abstract: http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/ice3/papers/cook.html

  23. Cook, J. and Light, A. (2006). New Patterns of Power and Participation? Designing ICT for Informal and Community Learning. E-Learning. Special Issue of ICE2 Symposium, 3(1), 51-61. Available: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_1.asp or final draft: http://staffweb.londonmet.ac.uk/~cookj1/top_files/e-learning_JC_AL_final_draft.doc

  24. Cook, J. and Smith, M. (2004). Beyond Formal Learning: Informal Community eLearning . Computers and Education , CAL03 Special Issue, 43(1-2), 35-47. PDF of final draft: http://staffweb.londonmet.ac.uk/~cookj1/top_files/Cook-Smith_C&E_04_final_draft.pdf

  25. Cook, J. (2002). The Role of Dialogue in Computer-Based Learning and Observing Learning: An Evolutionary Approach to Theory. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 5. Paper online: www-jime.open.ac.uk/2002/5


Résumé for John Cook
John Cook (PhD MSc BSc CEng MBCS CITP FHEA) is Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. He is attached to the Education Studies Cluster in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Languages and Education. John was part of the successful Educations RAE submission; London Metropolitan University appeared in the upper quintile of the 2008 RAE Education UoA ranking, achieving a Grade Point Average of 2.45. His own publications were rated 3*/4* in a 2007 mock RAE (the external was the former Chair of the 2000 RAE Education UoA). John has over 14 years previous experience as a full-time lecturer at various HEIs and in 2007 was made a University Teaching Fellow. He has over 9 years project management experience, which includes AHRB, BECTA, HEFCE (CETL Manager 2005-2008) and EC work. Furthermore, John has been part of research and development grant proposals that have attracted over £4 million in competitive external funding. In addition, he has published/presented around 220 refereed articles and invited talks in the area of TEL, having a specific interest in five related areas: informal learning, mobile learning, augmented contexts for development, user-generated contexts and work-based learning. John is a founding member of The London Mobile Learning Group (http://www.londonmobilelearning.net). He was Chair/President of the Association for Learning Technology (2004-06), he is currently the Chair of ALT’s Research Committee and is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee ‘Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group’. John sits on various journal editorial boards and conducts Assessor and review work for the ESRC, EPSRC, EU, UK Government and Science Foundation of Ireland. In 2010 he was invited to serve on the ESRC Peer Review College.

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